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Celina

From Latin caelum, "sky", giving Celina the sense of "heavenly". It's a name on the way back up: more girls got it last year than in most years past, though meeting one still counts as memorable.

Celina Pronunciation

Celina is pronounced tse-LEE-nah (/t͡sɛˈlina/).

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Céline Celinka
Alive in 2025
17,584
Newborns 2025
203
National rank
#290
Next name day
15 December
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What Celina means

Where Celina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Celina comes from the Latin caelum, sky or heaven. From that root grew the short meaning the name still carries, "heavenly, of the sky." The same caelum stands behind English celestial and Italian cielo, so Celina belongs to a wide family of sky-words.

Polish keeps its own relatives close. Celestyna is the longer variant, and Celestyn gives the name a masculine form. Five medieval popes chose the Latin name Celestinus from that same root, among them the hermit Pietro, who became Celestine V in 1294 and resigned the office within months.

Picture a class register on the first morning of school. The teacher reads the roll, and one Celina answers among the Zuzannas. Her name-day falls on 21 October, kept for Saint Celina, mother of the bishop Remigius of Reims. The meaning stays where it began, in caelum, the sky.

When Celina celebrates name day

Celina appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 21 October.

Next name day
15 December
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Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Celina

1 in 1282 women in Poland is named Celina. 17,584 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #290 among female names.

People with the name Celina 2019 → 2025
17,584 −745 since 2019
2020 18,277 −52
2021 18,062 −215
2022 17,901 −161
2023 17,712 −189
2024 17,663 −49
2025 17,584 −79

Celina's popularity over time

203 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #181 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

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203 newborns with the name Celina in 2025
national rank #181 that year

Where parents choose Celina

Celina is most popular in Greater Poland, 65% above the national average (214 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+43%) and West Pomeranian (+34%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Podlaskie, 67% and 52% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +65%
    1 in 1,006 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +43%
    1 in 1,164 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +34%
    1 in 1,242 babies
Chosen least
  • Holy Cross
    −67%
    1 in 5,039 babies
  • Podlaskie
    −52%
    1 in 3,462 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −43%
    1 in 2,909 babies

Celina as a middle name

Celina is a first name for 17,584 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8,843, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 117th, between Faustyna (9,032) and Karina (8,817).

As a first name
17,584
As a middle name
8,843
first name 67% middle name 33%
Middle-name ranking women

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